Showing posts with label medical interventions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medical interventions. Show all posts

Monday, March 26, 2012

The Most Scientific Birth Is Often the Least Technological Birth


When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician, they generally describe a woman who wears long cotton skirts, braids her hair, eats only organic vegan food, does yoga, and maybe drives a VW microbus. What they don't envision is the omnivorous, pants-wearing science geek standing before them.

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